PBS sued the Trump administration on Friday, arguing that Trump’s move to cut off funding violates the First Amendment.

The lawsuit also argues that Trump has violated the statutory framework that established the service in 1969, and which was designed to keep its editorial content free from political interference. In an executive order on May 1, Trump called PBS “corrosive” and said that its news broadcast is “biased and partisan.”

“PBS disputes those charged assertions in the strongest possible terms,” the lawsuit states. “But regardless of any policy disagreements over the role of public television, our Constitution and laws forbid the President from serving as the arbiter of the content of PBS’s programming, including by attempting to defund PBS.”

PBS joins NPR, which filed a

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